Who Goes There?

Shasta Publishers, Chicago, 1948 is the true first — census confirmed — and is the first appearance in book form of the 1938 Astounding novella that became The Thing from Another World (1951) and The Thing (1982). It was also Shasta's own first book. No UK, US-rival, or original-language edition precedes it, so there is no precedence contest for this title; every competing candidate is a later Shasta printing or a paperback reprint.